One of the main problems with the WA gov sites is that a little over two years ago a large number of govt departments got amalgamated. Most of my peers have spent the last couple of years trying to get three, four or more sites into a single logical structure (and boy it is fun with all the internal polictics involved).
> I understand it hasn't been touched since 2001 - and that would > certainly explain it. The dot com bust also hit gov hard, what was once a promising portal, is now all but abandoned. > Regarding that link - that was another of my peeves. The average > person isn't going to think of looking under Labor Relations or Work > and Conditions for that info (I myself missed that link.) I think > Public Holidays isn't even mention in the title of the search result > but about 15 words into the description :( Part of my personal IA peeve, some people expect everybody to know intutively which section of which govt department look after what and expect us to build web sites around the structure of the department /section not around the structure of the information. > I'm not intending to be negative - all I was is dissapointed that the > site was so hard to use, almost every page was actually a different > sub domain or domain, and looked totally different from the last :( While there is "common branding" http://www.commonbadge.dpc.wa.gov.au/ Most websites have a very different view of what it all means and with no direction from above it will continue that way. Nick ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
